Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Jerusalem on Fire - European Individual Chess Champ Round 8

(bahasa Indonesia di bawah)
The 16th European Individual Chess Championship is underway. Up to round 8 Ian Nepomniachtchi finally the sole leader with 6.5 out of 8 rounds. Still 13 players is on second place with 6 points, included David Navara (1st seed), Alexander Motylev (incumbent champion), Anton Korobov, Volikitin, Nisipeanu and many others. The tournament happened in Jerusalem is best describe by their host's jargon, "Jerusalem is ready for Europe invasion!". About hundreds of 2200 level players in the field, and total of 250 players participating. This event also acted as qualifier for the next Chess World Cup.

David Howell is doing fine in this tournament, he only lost to Ian Nepomniachtchi in round 8 that put him to distant out of top 20, temporarily. Against David Klein (who played in Tata Chess Group B this year), he got a blunder gift and managed to performed a checkmate.

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